The best games of 2025 so far fill out an enormous range of prices. Split Fiction and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are $50. Blue Prince is $30. Mario Kart World is $80, while Donkey Kong Bananza is $70. Monster Hunter Wilds and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach are also $70, but Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is $60.
Analyst Mat Piscatella, executive director of games at market research firm Circana, reckons this wide price gradient is only going to continue, and could swing wider, as companies balance production costs, economic pressures, and competition. The old model of $60 games, which became $70 games not all that long ago, is dead. But as some game prices trend higher, that also creates room for cheaper games to swoop in.
